Legal Opinion
People v. Allison
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 4, 1986No. Appeal No. 1PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
— Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: We find no evidence in the trial record which tends to establish that the prosecutor knowingly used what defendant describes as "perjured testimony” of George Eckles, an accomplice of defendant, that no promise of a reduced plea had been offered in exchange for his testimony. In addition, defendant’s CPL 440.30 motion to vacate the judgment, based on the same claim, and grounded on the affidavit of Eckles, who sought to recant his trial testimony, was properly denied without a hearing since "[tjhere is no form of proof so unreliable as recanting…
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